Old Hen Quotes

#1. It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.

Charles Darwin

#2. An old hen is worth 40 chickens. ~ Hebe Jones

Julia Stuart

#3. I'm like a big old hen. I can't cluck too long about the egg I've just laid because I've got 5 more inside me pushing to get out.

Louis L'Amour

#4. The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.

Fisher Ames

#5. But like always when I try to place my thoughts in the past and hide there, the fear close at hand seeps in through the memory.

Ken Kesey

#6. The old brown hen and the old blue sky,
Between the two we live and die
The broken cartwheel on the hill.

Wallace Stevens

#7. We make her bear and raise our children
And then we leave her flat for being a fat old mother hen
We tell her, home is the only place she should be
Then we complain that she's too
unworldly to be our friend

John Lennon

#8. Clinging to each other won't save you maggots when the boot falls!

Gangrel

#9. I'll be scalded and tarred if a man can't get a little welcome when he comes home. Well, Maggie, you old gunny-sack, how's the broken down old weather hen? - Sabina, old fishbait, old skunkpot. - And the children, - how've the little smellers been?

Thornton Wilder

#10. There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four larks and a wren have all built their nests in my beard.

Edward Lear

#11. Compassion is the enemy. Mercy defeats us

Zoran

#12. I love Central Park. I feel like I am somewhere else.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck

#13. Any rash fool can be a hero if he sets no value on his life, or hasn't the wit to appreciate danger. But to understand the risk, perhaps even to flinch at first, but then to summon the strength to face them down - that in my opinion is the most commendable form of valour

Robert Harris

#14. I once knew a house rather like The Land of Smiles - an old house occupied by a varied collection of young people, mainly students. However none of these people were true models for the characters in the book, though their way of life may have been.

Margaret Mahy

#15. With glitzy add-ons, the bright, girly dress you bought for daywear becomes fancy enough for evening.

Brad Goreski